Jesus Took Our Place

But Christ came as High Priest of the good things to come, with the greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with hands, that is, not of this creation. Not with the blood of goats and calves but with His own blood He entered the Most Holy Place once for all having obtained eternal redemption. -Hebrews 9:11,12

After Adam’s fall, man inherited a load he couldn’t carry—a load of death, sin, iniquity, sickness and disease. The old covenant provided for man’s sins to be covered for a year at a time through the shedding of the blood of bulls and goats. Man could also experience healing in his body through animal sacrifices. But those sacrifices had to be made every year because they were only temporary. They could only cover sins, not wash sins away.

Then Jesus Christ came and took the place for our punishment, dying on the Cross as our substitute. Most people have no problem believing that Jesus bore our iniquities on the Cross and set us free from sin—and He did. He paid the price for  our sins so we could stand before Him forgiven, Through Jesus, we don’t have to be bound to a sin nature anymore. We live in right standing with God, and sin cannot dominate us any longer.

But most Christians believe that Jesus left us with our sicknesses, intending to decide on an individual basis who should be healed. These people believe that salvation belongs to everyone but that you never know who’s going to get healing.

That’s what most Christians believe, but that is not what the Bible says. Isaiah 53:5 says that Jesus “was wounded for our transgressions, bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.” He took our sin, pain and sickness and nailed it all to the Cross, setting us free.

Jesus already took sickness. Anyone can be saved and anyone who is saved can be healed. Healing belongs to us!

CONFESSION:

When I called on Jesus to be my Savior and made Him my Lord, He also became my healer. By faith I receive the healing that is mine. I walk in the divine health that Jesus bought and paid for!

From: A Devotional for Divine Health Prescription for a Miracle, Mark Brazee, 1999